HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14887, 29 January 1914, Page 8

HOME AND FOREIGN.

-♦ » (By Cable.—Pins Asiociation—Copyright.) LORD DENMAN'S SUCCESSOR. LONDON, January 27. The "Manchester Guardian" suggests that Mr C. Hobhouse, M.P. for Bristol, should succeed Lord" Denman as Governor-General of Australia. NEGRO LYNCHED. NEW YORK, January 27. At Raleigh, North Carolina, a mob rushed the gaol in which Jim Wilson, a negro, was confined on a charge of murdering a whito woman. The mob got ahead of the State Militia, which had been despatched to prevent them breaking in. They hanged tho man from a tree and riddled his body with bullets. REVOLUTION IN HAYTI. CAPE HAYTTEN, January 27. The revolution is spreading throughout the north of tho island. The whole population is in arms, and heavy fighting is anticipated. - ■ '."Time«"-Sydney "Sun" Special Cable.) JPERILS OF CINEMATOGRAPHY. NAIROBI, January 28. A member of "Mr Paul Rainey's cinematograph expedition was mauled by a lion in attempting to photograph it, and succumbed. HYDROPHOBIA IN INDIA. ' CALCUTTA, January 28. A corporal of-Eiold Artillery at Bangalore died from hydrophobia caused by a bite from a pet monkey which had been bitten by a mad dog in June last. Seventeen others who wero bitten by the monkey have been despatched to Madras to undergo the Pasteur treatmeat.